Tag Archives: Genco Privatization

Predictive Markets - Magat

I’m starting another experiment. I’ve always been intrigued by the University of Iowa’s work with the Iowa Electronic Markets and its predictive abilities.
So I’ve started a predictive market for the Napocor asset sale prices.
The first “stock” to be traded is Magat with an initial price of $360 million (arbitrarily set at $1000/kW). There’s [...]

WESM and the Industrials

Monday morning, Sept. 25, WESM is giving a presentation - well, they call it a discussion - to the American Chamber of Commerce Energy Committee entitled “How Large Consumers of Electricity Can Better Understand the Purchase of Electricity.”
I’m not sure what that’s about - but I’ll be there. And let you know.

Pantabangan/Masiway

I had to chuckle, at CalEnergy’s expense, today when I read Alfie’s post regarding a web search with the keywords “minimum, bid, masiway, generating, assets.”
But frankly it wasn’t fair. My read is that the person was searching for discussion regarding that subject - a very wise thing to do - not the minimum bids themselves.
Had [...]